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Stephen Ward was the fashionable osteopath who, as punishment for introducing the minister for war, Jack Profumo, to his young nemesis Christine Keeler, was framed by the police on "vice" charges and hounded to death in 1963. Ward was an avid attention seeker, an incorrigibly indiscreet chatterbox with a mischievous streak, who would revel in the attention that he is receiving 50 years after his Old Bailey trial. Andrew Lloyd Webber is bringing out a musical honouring him. Written by no less than Christopher Hampton and Don Black, and directed by Richard Eyre, the play is an apotheosis for a scapegoat who was denounced in court as "a thoroughly filthy fellow" and was ostracised by his friends.

Geoffrey Robertson, the human rights barrister, has written a coruscating account of the miscarriage of justice centred on Ward. He shows how the Conservative home secretary Henry Brooke summoned the head of MI5 and the police commissioner of Scotland Yard to the Home Office and instructed them to "get Ward", as Robertson says, "for any offence that he could possibly have committed". Ward's crimes, so far as the devoutly Christian home secretary was concerned, were fornication, Godlessness and blabbing information to Labour politicians about Profumo. Ward's telephone was bugged, his patients were placed under surveillance and 140 witnesses were interviewed so that the police could frame Ward as a pimp.
Only recently, after the deaths of the last policemen involved, has it been possible to give the full story of police threats to witnesses, their concoction of evidence and barefaced lies. Little has changed in the Metropolitan police's handling of some high profile cases, it may be thought, and it is timely to be reminded of police misconduct in cases with political ramifications.

The prosecution of Ward was launched for political expediency. Laws and legal procedures were manipulated to produce an unjust verdict. After a string of witnesses had traipsed into the witness box to lie about Ward, he was convicted on two counts of living on the earnings of prostitutes, namely Keeler and Mandy Rice-Davies. This is a continuing injustice to these two women who, as the law stood in 1963, and by any reasonable judgment now, were never prostitutes. They were perfectly capable of making their own choices about men, and far from indiscriminate in their boyfriends. It is hateful misogyny to call them "tarts" or "whores", as people did, and journalists still do.

Ward's prosecutor and judge could not imagine women enjoying sex, or understand why women might "perform sexual acts", in the prim phrase of 1963, unless they were grateful wives or paid sex-workers. In comparable class discrimination, the prosecution did not seek testimony from the government minister, the film star, the aristocrats and tycoons who had been boyfriends of Keeler and Rice-Davies. They did dredge up and humiliate a witness who resembled Harry Enfield's character Mr Cholmondley-Warner and was deemed too suburban to need crown protection.

There is rollicking humour as well as cold rage in Robertson's account of the injustice. He shows that the judge in the case made repeated improper interventions in the trial, and misdirected the jury on both the evidence and the law – most grievously in the definition of prostitution. The judge's summing up was so cruelly biased that it drove Ward to take a fatal overdose.

Robertson's chief villain is the then lord chief justice, Lord Parker of Waddington. He initiated the policy, which continues to this day, of refusing to allow transcripts of the trial to be made available. It is, Robertson says, "the only public trial in British history which is subject to this enforced secrecy, and there can only be one reason, namely to stop researchers from appreciating its unfairness". The splendidly redoubtable Rice-Davies used the Freedom of Information Act to obtain the transcript of her own testimony. It arrived with all the names that she mentioned in open court – even Keeler's – redacted in thick black ink by some time-wasting jobsworth. Such is the obsessive commitment to suppressing the truth about Ward's trial.

Parker's other machinations against Ward are crucial to Robertson's book. In devious manoeuvres – which Robertson summarises with glorious lucidity – Parker acted to prevent the Ward jury from knowing that Keeler had perjured herself in another criminal trial and that her testimony against Ward was worthless. Parker wanted to protect the policeman in charge of the case from the revelation that they had coerced her into perjury in both cases. More than that, on grounds of supposed public morality, he wanted to oblige the government by ensuring Ward's conviction. Parker's ruthless deceptions at this time almost beggar belief.

The cases of the Birmingham Six and the Guildford Four, and reforms instituted by recent lord chief justices, mean that the judiciary could not behave now as it did 50 years ago. Police misconduct, by contrast, is as untrammelled as ever. And the political influences and newspaper brouhaha that can contaminate trial by jury have not been eliminated.

This polemic comes with endorsements from two former directors of public prosecutions. "A must-read for all those concerned to understand how miscarriages of justice can arise," says Keir Starmer. "A wonderfully clear discussion of a very grim period in British criminal justice – a thriller with a dark ending," adds Starmer's predecessor Ken Macdonald. It is to be hoped that the Criminal Case Review Commission refers Ward's conviction to the court of appeal.

For those who have a prior interest in the framing and show trial of Stephen Ward this is a tremendous and thrilling book. I could not sleep for excitement after reading it at one sitting. Stephen Ward Was Innocent, OK is written with punchiness, gusto, incisive forensic analysis, and deadly gallows humour befitting its subject. Anyone who wants a thumping, indignant read as an antidote to Yuletide complacence should be given this polemic in their Christmas stocking

So much for the claim, a stock-in-trade of left-gatekeepers in particular, that large establishment conspiracies, contemporaneous with the Dallas coup, are conspicuous only by their absence. Here is a massive one, within one half of the core Anglosphere, which continues, like the Dallas one, to this day.

"There are three sorts of conspiracy: by the people who complain, by the people who write, by the people who take action. There is nothing to fear from the first group, the two others are more dangerous; but the police have to be part of all three,"

There is rollicking humour as well as cold rage in Robertson's account of the injustice. He shows that the judge in the case made repeated improper interventions in the trial, and misdirected the jury on both the evidence and the law – most grievously in the definition of prostitution. The judge's summing up was so cruelly biased that it drove Ward to take a fatal overdose.

Although a recent report, posted on this forum, reveals that Ward was almost certainly murdered by a paid agent working for the security and intelligence services.

The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.

There is rollicking humour as well as cold rage in Robertson's account of the injustice. He shows that the judge in the case made repeated improper interventions in the trial, and misdirected the jury on both the evidence and the law – most grievously in the definition of prostitution. The judge's summing up was so cruelly biased that it drove Ward to take a fatal overdose.

Although a recent report, posted on this forum, reveals that Ward was almost certainly murdered by a paid agent working for the security and intelligence services.

Yes. It's here. It's from a new book co-authored by Stephen Doril - former partner of Lobster's Robin Ramsey and always worthy of attention IMO. The book benefits from the authors having been 'given sight of' the trial transcripts [though still sealed from public view - hmm] + US and other documents.

A few snippets from the Prologue:

....Stephen Ward never heard the verdict. By the time it was handed down, he was in hospital on life support, following the barbiturate overdose that was to kill him. A distinguished observer wrote at the time that, ‘There were many people in Britain who, on hearing the news, felt a little ashamed, a little diminished . . .’

The writer Henry Fairlie defined the British Establishment as ‘A small group of men who use their contacts and influence to put a stop to the things they disapprove of, to promote the reliable, and to preserve the status quo.’ Though it has been described as being time-hallowed, the Establishment had the odour as much of corruption as of sanctity – as it still does all these years later. It provided the principal villains in the Profumo Affair.
Talking with a friend in his last conscious hours, Ward had said, ‘Someone had to be sacrificed, and it was me. One or two people can still vindicate me, but when the Establishment want blood, they get it.’

....Our investigation suggests that the public never learned the true facts about the Profumo case, and remained woefully uninformed about the role of the British security and intelligence services.

We reached these conclusions by compiling our own dossier, based on many dozens of fresh interviews. Apart from the new American documents, we were permitted – for the first time – to see official transcripts of the Ward trial, a record that had always been denied to researchers. Finally, we obtained a typewritten outline for a memoir Ward himself assembled shortly before he died. Part of it was written by hand in Brixton Prison and taken out in sections by a visiting friend, part was apparently dictated into a tape recorder. Some of what he claimed may have been self-serving, less than the truth, but it is evident that he was used, then made a scapegoat – while sordid truths about the ‘great and the good’ were covered up in both Britain and the United States. This book is an effort to open a window on an episode the Establishment preferred kept tightly shut.

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Peter Presland

".....there is something far worse than Nazism, and that is the hubris of the Anglo-American fraternities, whose routine is to incite indigenous monsters to war, and steer the pandemonium to further their imperial aims"Guido Preparata. Preface to 'Conjuring Hitler'"Never believe anything until it has been officially denied"Claud Cockburn

The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.

The Profumo scandal has come in for some recent news because it is now claimed that Mi5 had Dr. Steven Ward murdered to shut him up.

To be honest, the entire story has interested me for decades, as I'm old enough to remember it hitting the headlines at the time. In the UK it caused a real stink...

Anyway, I'm posting below, with the usual caveats for caution, a story just posted on the Aangirfan website. Personally, I don't buy into the general thesis being presented - albeit subtly - but also can't entirely rule it out either. Readers need make up their own minds. It is a far ranging essay and lacks, for me anyway, cohesiveness and is also repetitive and not clearly presented. But it also has some interesting aspects.

For me the entire Profumo scandal is a story that needs writing by a quality researcher who is unafraid to trace every major lead and has no concerns about treading on sensitive feet. It is admittedly an old story, that some may find uninteresting and antiquated, but I suspect its actual ramifications are highly significant for today.

Firstly, however, I think members may benefit from reading Linda Minor's post on the scandal posted back in 2009.

Stella Capes, aka Mariella Novotny. "Mariella was part Jewish, she was actually quiet proud of that and spoke Hebrew."(NightHawk: The Czech Night Hawk)Mariella Novotny played a sex game, called 'nurse and patient', withJFK.She was suspected of being a Communist from Czechoslovakia and of being a tool of the British security services.

She may have been used by some shadowy elite that involved agents of Mossad, the KGB, the CIA and MI6.

According to fellow prostitute Christeen Keeler, Mariella was originally Stella Capes, but she changed her name to Mariella Novotny because it "had a more whiplash ring to it."

Dibben and Mariella.

Mariella married Hod Dibben.

According to Thomas Critchley, secretary to the 1963 Denning inquiry: "Hod Dibben had interests in black magic and had a tremendous appetite for sex, so long as it was perverted enough."

Hod ran nightclubs in London's Shepherd Market and Mayfair.

Visitors to his nightclubs included Princess Margaret's husband Anthony Armstrong-Jones, the top freemason the Duke of Kent, prostitute Christeen Keeler's friend Lord Astor and the Kray twinswho supplied young boys to top people.

Hod and Mariella held dinner parties for Earl Spencer, of Princess Diana's family.

Stephen Ward, who provided girls such as Christeen Keeler to members of the elite, is now the subject of a musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber.

The UK Secretary of State for War, John Profumo, was involved with this set, and slept with Christeen Keeler.

In 1963, when UK cabinet ministers were revealed to be involved in what became known as the Profumo scandal, a government inquiry was set up under Lord Denning.

John Profumo

Lord Denning, and his secretrary Thomas Critchley, suspected thatSatanic rituals were being performed in Mariella and Hod's basement flat in Hyde Park Square.

Lord Denning took an interest in a 1961 orgy, arranged by Mariella Novotny, called the "Man in the Mask" Party.

The orgy took place in the mansion flat at 13 Hyde Park Square owned by Hod Dibben.

Osteopath Stephen Ward. His MI5 controller was said to be Keith Wagstaffe. Reportedly Ward was murdered by MI5.

Those in attendance at 13 Hyde Park Square included: the prostitutes Mandy Rice-Davis and Christeen Keeler, Stephen Ward dressed in a sock, Mariella wearing a black corset and a holding whip and various mainly naked celebrities.

In 1987, four years after Mariella's death, Hod indicated that the man in the mask might have been the film director the Honourable Anthony Asquith, the youngest son of Prime Minister Herbert Asquith, who had once signed the "gross indecency" arrest warrant against Oscar Wilde.

However, it is thought unlikely that the 'gentle' Asquith was Mariella's client as Anthony Asquith was gay.

There are well known spy services such as the CIA, MI6, Mossad and the KGB.

But, there appears to be a 'super-group' that links all of the above and that is more powerful than all of the above.

An agent may have worked for the CIA and KGB, but, mainly for the 'super group'?

The 'super group' may have links to fascist billionaires, the Mafia and Israel?

Or perhaps there are several powerful 'factions' involved?

1. "Twenty-five minutes before the assassination of JFK someone phoned the Cambridge Evening News in the UK warning of 'big news' and suggesting the paper called the US embassy in London.

"When this story emerged it was claimed the phone-call was anonymous.

"However, later that day a CIA officer based in London sent a telegram to their office in Washington claimed 'some similar phone-calls of strangely coincidental nature previous received in this country over past year, particularly in connection with the Dr Ward’s case.'"

Henry Kissinger with Fritz Kraemer. In 1944 Kraemer discovered the young Henry Kissinger who joined his division in the US military. Kraemer may or may not have had links to Hitler ASCII text - www.ratical.org.

4. On August 14, 1975, during a press conference at the Hyatt House in Birmingham, Alabama, Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger was asked by a reporter:

"Mr. Secretary, we received a report that a Colonel General Michael Goleniewski, who was a Polish Army intelligence officer in World War II, had identified a list of KGB and GRU agents and officers who have since been arrested, tried and convicted.

"The General... also identified you, Mr. Kissinger, as having worked for a Soviet intelligence network -- code name ODRA -- headquartered in Germany during World War II, at the same time you were a U.S. Army counter-interrogator and instructor in a military intelligence school. . .

"Is this true? And, if not, how do you explain your name being on General Goleniewski's list?"

In 1978 Novotny announced that she had started work on her autobiography which would include details of her work for MI5. (Mariella Novotny)

She claimed that her book would include details of a "plot to discredit Jack Kennedy".

Mariella Novotny was found dead in her bed in February 1983.

According to Stephen Dorrel: "Shortly after her death her house was burgled and all her files and large day-to-day diaries from the early sixties to the seventies were stolen." (Mariella Novotny)

Mandy Rice Davies with the Israeli army. Mandy was one of Ward's girls. She converted to Judaism, married an Israeli businessman, Rafi Shauli, and opened nightclubs and restaurants in Tel Aviv. (Mandy Rice-Davies - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia). Her activities in London and the USA were financed by Peter Rachman (Mandy Rice-Davies), who was allegedly a Mossad spy. (Cached)

The Profumo Affair was the scandal involving Ward's girls and a UK government minister called Jack Profumo.

Mandy Rice-Davies was involved in the 'Profumo Affair' but she escaped prosecution.

In her autobiography, Mandy (1980) Mandy Rice-Davies described what happened when she arrived at Novotny's party in Bayswater: "The door was opened by Stephen (Ward) - naked except for his socks...

"All the men were naked, the women naked except for wisps of clothing like suspender belts and stockings.

"I recognised our host and hostess, Mariella Novotny and her husband Horace Dibbins, and unfortunately I recognised too a fair number of other faces as belonging to people so famous you could not fail to recognise them: a Harley Street gynaecologist, several politicians, including a Cabinet minister of the day, now dead, who, Stephen told us with great glee, had served dinner of roast peacock wearing nothing but a mask and a bow tie instead of a fig leaf."

"She was involved in supplying young girls to 'the man in the mask' but drew the line at supplying girls under 15-16, he preferred 12 and under. Others found those girls for him.

"She was involved with Ward in trying to get a camera in to take photos of the abuses, but 'the masks' security was too good and the cameras too bulky.

"She knew of one 10 year-old girl who disappeared after being taken to hospital by the police. Just vanished.

"There were rumours of an orphanage in Ireland (Ronna had contacts in the IRA) where men she named for me filmed children being abused by people specially chosen for blackmail - as they were being slowly strangled to death by Anthony Blunt. Snuff-movies."

John Profumo

John Profumo was the UK's Secretary of State for War.

Lord Astor was a man who held sexy parties at Cliveden, his stately home.

Stephen Ward was the osteopath and procurer of girls for top people.

One of Ward's friends was Christine Keeler.

Yevgeny Ivanov was a Russian naval officer and 'spy'.

Christine Keeler met John Profumo at Cliveden in 1961.

Christine had an affair with both Profumo and the Russian spy, Ivanov.

One night, a West Indian called Johnny Edgecombe arrived at Stephen Ward’s house and began shooting at the door.

Eventually, Stephen Ward was arrested and he then apparently died in mysterious circumstances.

Chief Inspector Samuel Herbert, who investigated Stephen Ward, died of a heart attack on 16th April 1966 at the age of 48.

In his will he left only £300.

However, after his death his bank account was discovered to contain £30,000.

According to Philip Knightley: "By coincidence, in the tape recordings which Christine Keeler made with her manager, Robin Drury, Keeler says that John Lewis, Ward's bitter enemy, had offered her £30,000 for information leading to Ward's conviction and the bringing down of the Conservative Government."

Reportedly, Dr Stephen Ward had an MI5 controller, Keith Wagstaffe.

Reportedly, Sir Colin Coote, Editor of the Daily Telegraph and a former officer in MI6, was responsible for introducing Ward to Ivanov 'at the behest of his old service',

Reportedly, J. Edgar Hoover was aware that 'the Ward circle included many extremely well known Americans and girls such as Suzy Chang and Mariella Novotny who had been bedded by President John F. Kennedy.'

Harold Wilson

Who gained from the Profumo Affair?

Harold Wilson became UK Prime Minister.

Anatoli Golitsin, a spy who defected from the KGB, claimed that Hugh Gaitskell was murdered in 1963 so that Harold Wilson, a 'KGB agent', could become leader of the Labour Party.

Was Wilson working for Russia or Israel?

Harold Wilson was President of the Board of Trade from 1947-51. The few people who could get permission from the Board of Trade to import heavily rationed raw materials or finished goods were in a good position to become vastly rich. Among the lucky few who got licenses were Montague Meyer, Joe Kagan and Rudy Sternberg. Kagan and Sternberg later became peers. Meyer gave Wilson a consultancy which took him on frequent trips to Moscow and Eastern Europe.

After the 'mysterious' death of Hugh Gaitskell, Wilson became Labour leader and eventually Prime Minister. Harold Wilson's 'private office' was funded in secret by a wealthy group which included Lord Goodman, Sir Samuel Fisher, and Rudy Sternberg.

In the 1970's, Private Eye began to receive information of a possible link between Wilson and the Israeli secret service and the KGB. In connection with alleged plots, the names of various people were handed to Private Eye.

Labour MP Ian Mikardo had at one time partnered Leslie Paisner in a business that traded with East Germany. Mikardo's pair in the House of Commons was Barnaby Drayson who worked for Rudy Sternberg, as did Wilfred Owen MP who had resigned after being revealed as a spy for Czechoslovakia. Montague Meyer, it turned out, was the man who had bought up much of the timber felled in Tanganyika during Labour's ill-fated groundnut scheme.

Then there was Labour MP Edward Short 'who had been in the habit of receiving bundles of banknotes from T Dan Smith', the city boss of Newcastle and one time partner of Eric Levine.

Kagan was a frequent visitor to Downing Street. He was also on friendly terms with the station chief of the Russian KGB. After being questioneded by the police about tax and currency offences he eventually 'fled' to Israel, where perhaps his real allegiance lay.

Sir Rudy Sternberg was also under investigation by the security services.

What may have stopped Private Eye from finally getting at the truth was the intervention of the Jewish businessman James Goldsmith, a friend of PM Wilson's personal secretary, Marcia Williams. Marcia was also a friend of Kagan. Private Eye had mistakenly claimed that Goldsmith had been present at a lunch given by John Aspinall, on the day after the disappearance of Lord Lucan. Goldsmith began criminal libel proceedings against Private Eye.

Patrick Marnham, in his brilliant book "Trail of Havoc: In the Steps of Lord Lucan", writes that Goldsmith was "effectively silencing the only newspaper which migh t have made headway with the ....allegations."

Goldsmith later became a knight. Sir Joseph Kagan was later imprisoned.

But the possible links between Labour and Israel's secret service may not have ended with Wilson. Private Eye began to take an interest in RobertMaxwell, the chief fund raiser for Labour. Maxwell received a knighthood, mysteriously disappeared, and 'his body' was buried with great honour in Israel. It was assumed by many that he was a top Israeli spy.

And what of Tony Blair. Private Eye has pointed out that Blair's chief fund raiser is Lord Levy, a man with strong links to Israel. Blair's chief foreign policy adviser was Sir David Manning........

While undergoing a cataract operation, Blunt "blurted out to the surgeon accusations about the comedy actor Charlie Chaplin being blackmailed into being a top A.I.P (agent in place) for the Jewish underground, under threat of exposure about his tastes in underage girls, his recruitment by Lord Victor Rothschild, of his own involvement with both the Russians, and of Blunt being 'turned on sexually' by the shiny boots, and fur busbies that Guardsmen wore...

"Blunt would insist that the mysterious death in 1941 of the king’s brother, the Duke of Kent, was a murder on Churchill’s orders, as he was trying to make peace. Blunt was unusually angry over this murder.

"It was long rumoured that the unusual resemblance between Blunt and Edward VIII was because they were half brothers."

Reportedly, in the 1950s and 1960s, MI5 ran a brothel in Church Street in Kensington for the use of visiting dignitaries, diplomats and intelligence officers.Young female or male company could also be supplied directly to a VIP's hotel bedroom... (PROFUMO, John - Spy School Bios)

Clay Shaw

In Toronto, Michael Eddowes "knocked on the door of an apartment owned by one of Clay Shaw's boyfriends: it was opened by a fellow named Robin Drury. Drury, a homosexual, had been the 'agent'of Christine Keeler during the time of the British sex scandal known as the Profumo Affair."

The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.

That Aangirfan site usually has a lot of good information, though the author is a bit preoccupied with The Jews! The Jews!

Aye, I agree. I am also often cautious about factuality, which is why I rarely post from the site here. But there are times when the subject matter and some info seems to need wider distribution.

The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.

Carolina Otero, who was the mistress of Edward VII, Albert I of Monaco and several members of the Russian royal family. The cupolas of the Hotel Carlton in Cannes are 'based on her breasts.'Edward VII had sex with Sarah Bernhardt in a silk-lined coffin which she kept in her bedroom.

Victor Hugo and Napoleon III also made use of Sarah's coffin.

'Daisy' Warwick, the wife of Lord Brooke, tried to blackmail the royal family by threatening to hand Edward VIII's love letters to the newspapers.

Arthur du Cros, of the Dunlop rubber company, gave £64,000 to Daisy in return for the love letters.

Prince Edward, Jimmy Donahue and Wallis Simpson, who allegedly was a man.Edward VIII was the eldest son of George V.

According to Christopher Wilson's book, "Dancing with the Devil, The Windsors and Jimmy Donahue": Prince Edward had a gay love affair with his Oxford University tutor Henry Peter Hansel.

The slim Wallis Simpson and Edward.

By 1935, Prince Edward was friends with Wallis Simpson.

Prince Edward allegedly allowed Wallis Simpson to play dominatrix.

According to Christopher Wilson, Wallis Simpson, the Duchess of Windsor, was a man.

Dr John Randall, of the Charing Cross hospital in London, reportedly told Michael Bloch, the Duchess’s bigrapher, that Wallis Simpson hadandrogen insensitivity syndrome, a hormonal irregularity that causes a genetically male body to develop as a woman, although without fully developed sex organs.

Donahue.

Wilson writes about the Duchess, the Duke and their relationship with the Woolworth heir Jimmy Donahue, "a gay playboy twenty years her junior."

Donahue liked to dress as a nun.

Donahue was an 'intimate' friend of Francis Spellman, New York's gay Cardinal Archbishop.

In 1936, in the months before his abdication, Edward VIII was being hypnotised by Dr Alexander Cannon, a qualified psychiatrist.

Before long, Mark was being regularly photographed in the company of various women, including Pamella Bordes, who reportedly earned £500 a time for entertaining various top people.

Princess Anne befriended her bodyguard, Sergeant Peter Cross of the Royal Protection Squad.

Cross was sacked from the squad.

While Princess Anne was pregnant with Zara, he met Anne secretly at her Gatcombe Park home.

Cross then gave his story to The News of the World.

Cross said he had met Princess Anne secretly on several occasions, at a cottage in the grounds of Princess Anne's country estate, and at a friend's house.

Mountbatten (back row, centre) uncle of Prince Philip.

The bisexual Lord Louis Mountbatten was married to Edwina, who had Jewish ancestry.

Reportedly, on one occasion, Lord Mountbatten entered Quaglino's restaurant and told the bandleader: 'I am lonely and sad and drunk. That nigger Hutch has a penis like a tree-trunk, and he's fuc**** my wife right now.'

"Mountbatten was particularly attracted to boys in their early teens; it was this characteristic which made him especially vulnerable to the IRA , because he needed to slip away from his personal bodyguards to keep dates with such boys , some of whom came in contact with IRA men."

The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.

Not Princess Anne & Was There Anyone Not At It?

I love the photo that is supposed to be Princess Anne This is clearly Prince Charles' face with possibly Princess Anne's hair superimposed.

It seems all high society were at it at one time or another - scandal left, right and centre .... I don't know where they got their energy from.

The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter .... Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon .... (WLSC)